Snippets

Steve Douglas on September 25th, 2010

The bitter-free, September wrap-up, Tip o’ the Pint, weekend edition of our regular snippets feature. Throwing a little link love to blogs, websites, logos and logo design articles we kinda dug. To David Airey. Actually, that should be two pints to UK designer David, author of Logo Design Love (book review here). The first is [...]

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Someone over at Craigslist has a decent sense of humor regarding the ever-controversial topic of spec work. They’re holding a reverse spec work contest of sorts, looking for their new boss. Nominated for Best of Craigslist too. [Craiglist]

Continue reading about Snippets: Craigslist spec funnies, fast food logos, Ferrari loses barcode, Salvador Dali was a logo designer

Vancouver based The Province announced today that Australian design contest site 99designs has picked up a Webby People’s Voice Award, which apparently makes them “the fan-favourite Web Service & Application of the global online community.” While that’s cool and all (and congrats to the 99designs crew), I found this all sorts of awesome. According to [...]

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Here’s a couple of interesting bits about logo tattoos. First up: Casa Sanchez, a San Francisco taqueria is offering a lifetime’s worth of Tacos for anyone who gets the restaurant’s logo inked on their person. Not the first time either. Casa Sanchez ran a similar promotion te years ago, and was even voted as ‘one [...]

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To effectively describe a website concept in a few lines of type, summing it up in concisely and succinctly, is an art form all of itself. Ain’t easy either, so I positively loved this description of a new World of Warcraft inspired, medieval role-playing website: “We provide you the battlefield and weaponry to conquer the [...]

Continue reading about Snippets: Battling logos, a couple of Pint Tips, just like 99designs & the IRS logo scam edition